The Story of Watt and Stephenson. (W. and R. Chambers.)-
- This "story" with all its results, as seen in the commercial life of the civilised world to-day, has often, of course, been told, yet never so succinctly or with so little "nonsense" as in this volume which cannot be considered, therefore, as at all superfluous In dealing both with Watt and Stephenson, the writer keeps the balance admirably between the personal and public sections of their lives. Nor is there anything savouring of unctuousness or even of sentimentality in the inevitable lessons drawn from the narratives of men who, in the Marcus Aurelius sense, "lived as on a mountain." The two final chapters, giving a bird's-eye view of railway progress in the world since the days of the Stephenson s, are clearly written, and will be found very useful. Altogether, this is an excellent book to put into the hands of a boy.
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